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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bizzare it’s there on my end. Glitch in the Matrix?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

No, that's an escape character. You have to double up on it for it to show up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To be doubly clear, if you want to use a special character literally instead of figuratively, you can add a \. That's an escape character. This includes \ itself, which if you look at the source on this comment you can see I'm typing twice.

Another example: *not italicised*, which I write \*not italicised\*, so it doesn't just come out not italicised.